Oakland wide receiver Amari Cooper will start his fourth NFL season on Monday night, when the Raiders square off against the Los Angeles Rams in the final game of the league's opening weekend for the 2018 campaign.

Cooper has a different head coach with Jon Gruden returning to the NFL after 10 seasons as a broadcaster, a different wide-receivers coach with Edgar Bennett moving in after three seasons as the Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator and a different wide receiver on the other end of the line with nine-year veteran Jordy Nelson taking over Michael Crabtree's spot.

Will the changes help snap Cooper back to his Pro Bowl form?

In his first two NFL seasons, the former Alabama All-American turned in two 1,000-yard campaigns. But last season, his output dipped to 680 yards as he missed two games.

"I'm ready," Cooper said. "We've been preparing. We have a lot of good plays drawn up, and I'm just excited, kind of -- I don't want to say anxious -- but I am kind of anxious because it's Monday night football. So really excited."

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The Raiders were once famous for the vertical passing game, and Oakland could see a revival of the deep ball under Gruden -- with Cooper the likely target.

"If you can run it, you can get some strong play-action passes that have a lot of sting," Gruden said. "... If you're running the ball with Marshawn Lynch and you're able to establish that, I think (Derek Carr) can be a great play-action passer. I think we've got some routes and some receivers that can get deep."

Gruden's offense has a complexity that Cooper hasn't dealt with previously in the NFL.

"I think that we're very prepared," Cooper said last week. "Usually around this time, you have the whole offense in and you're just kind of repeating things in meetings. But we're still adding stuff, so we have to stay on high alert and make sure we memorize all these plays."

Nelson had four seasons with more than 1,250 receiving yards and caught at least 13 touchdown passes in three with the Packers.

"It's added experience to the room," Cooper said of Nelson coming aboard. "You know Jordy, he's a bit like me. He doesn't really talk much, but when he does talk, it's always something very important, so my ears always perk up when he has something to say in the meeting room. ...

"He's always trying to give advice about some of the things that they did in Green Bay. Obviously, they were really explosive on the offensive side of the ball. Like I said, every time he talks, I listen. And it always makes sense when he talks, and I'm always listening, I'm always adjusting to the things that he tells me because I know it's something good."

Nelson said Cooper could become one of the NFL's elite receivers.

"From what I've seen, he has the ability," Nelson said. "His quickness and athleticism, the way he understands the game, hands, everything. He has it all. He's still a young guy."

The Rams and Raiders kick off at 9:20 p.m. CDT Monday at Oakland-Alameda Coliseum. ESPN will televise the game.

Los Angeles went from a 4-12 team in 2016 to an 11-5 record in 2017. In the offseason, the Rams traded for five-time Pro Bowler Aqib Talib and two-time Pro Bowler Marcus Peters to play cornerback in 2018.